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by 7952 4y ago
It is particularly difficult with nuclear as there are so many different professions involved. You may hear from a nuclear engineer about safety. But they are not a materials expert, or a human factors specialist, or a geologist, or a hyd
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by 7952 4y ago
The scary failure mode to the public for wind power can be easily mitigated. They have a buffer distance from places humans will be. So that if the turbine falls over or explodes no one will get hurt. You can make it safe with a map and
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by 7952 4y ago
I think we should get into the habit of changing leadership on the basis of results alone. So a serious incident would result in the commander being reassigned or demoted. And leadership would be held directly accountable for events regard
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NASA Turns to AI to Design Mission Hardware(nasa.gov)
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by 7952 4y ago
It is common in science to do experiments and learn lab skills to be able to do those experiments. Surely programming languages are just a way of doing practical work.
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by 7952 4y ago
The most important survival abilities are friendship, family and cooperation. Those are the things our society sometimes lacks.
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by 7952 4y ago
I think people like to have something to watch and something to listen to. It makes it harder for your brain to go off at a tangent because it has more to occupy it. I think this reduces anxiety and intrusive thoughts. They may even be f
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by 7952 4y ago
The difference is that for James Cameron's projects could rely on buying existing expertise from contractors. A small nation has to build that themselves in secret.
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My guess is that you have two states of equilibrium. One is that accidents happen all the time. The other is that accidents are extremely rare. Both states can exist, but the middle ground is rare and impossible to engineer. The error i
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The issues ovet winter in the UK were caused by gas supply concerns and low availability of French nuclear power. I am not really sure why you think that is the fault of the renewable industry. But anyway I pointed to the UK because the g
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by 7952 4y ago
And your "everyone knows" is an "appeal to the people" falacy. The grid operator in the UK certainly thinks it is possible to have a 100% renewable grid. Although I guess that the political situation in the USA preclude
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by 7952 4y ago
At a grid scale you don't have to do everything all at once. Overprovisioning takes time, as does interconnection and storage.
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by 7952 4y ago
You are comparing apples to oranges. We don't have the global industrial capacity to deploy nuclear at scale either. And the intrinsic technology challenge is more difficult with nuclear.
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My guess is that the invention of computers made design more expensive because it led to fewer constraints and more difficulty in asserting a single source of truth.
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Green energy does not have to be able to do 100% of everything to be useful. It is not as simple as CAN Vs CANT. And it won't suddenly flip from CANT to CAN in an instant.
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But at a grid scale we don't need a single installation to provide continuous power and it wouldn't necessarily make sense for it to do so. Load is not uniform across the day and other sources may be cheaper at any particular mom
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by 7952 4y ago
Surely a massive breach of that cluster is high income inequality. And that leads sometimes to socialism as one possible reaction.
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mm is used constantly in engineering and km will be used for long distances in professional settings.
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by 7952 4y ago
You don't typically need to reason about those numbers though. You know what 30mph feels like.
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by 7952 4y ago
I think VPNs can work great as you say but I don't think that is universal. It is very easy for them to become a bottleneck. And performance and stability issues are not always obvious to the end user so get ignored. Obviously these
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by 7952 4y ago
Just speculating but maybe the Amazon advantage is in b2b rather than b2c. In terms of AWS or Marketplace they have huge experience in selling managed resources to other companies. Maybe that approach could be applied to real world resour
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by 7952 4y ago
For a while I used a single HD 32inch monitor and loved it. I avoided complex windows all over the place. But could lean back in my chair and see everything from a distance.
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A lot of those things are not actively measured but are more experiential or used as an approximation. Height in feet is about how tall someone is, not their exact height. A mile to the pub is about how long it will take to walk, not the e
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by 7952 4y ago
I read that as a signal that I can easily sign up, test the product, find out the price and pay without having to talk to sales. Although here that seems to be false!
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Car manufacturers have made an artform out of selling questionable tradeoffs to customers. It doesn't need to be technically perfect (like an SUV). It just needs to sell.
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by 7952 4y ago
I think you also use propellent to reset the reaction control wheels when they run too quickly.
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by 7952 4y ago
It could be quite refreshing to be in an industry where technology can give predictable improvement in profit. You increase yield by x% and that pays for the technology and generates a profit.
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by 7952 4y ago
Caching is a generic technology that can be used in lawful or unlawful ways.
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by 7952 4y ago
But such a symbol could mean a lot of different types of threat. Sometimes we need to be specific. A bin in a hospital full of needles is different to a bin with iodine 125 inside. It requires a different response. A skull and cross bo
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by 7952 4y ago
Maybe the pressure isn't directly having an effect. But a side effect is that you stop the brew process after a short period of time and that will have an effect on taste.

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